Bye bye played out miltiary jacket and hello to the Firefighter Jacket next spring by J.Crew. The epaulets trend caught on in ’06 and I could rarely find a shirt or jacket, but now epaulets are stiched to everything! I’ve been looking for a basic sweater and I saw one in the color I want at Banana Republic, but it has epaulets on it. Like all good trends lets leave epaulets in the early thousands… is that what this decade is called?

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I’m kind of late in posting about these collections, but I haven’t read about them anywhere else. These are my last words on anything SS 10, because it’s still SS 09 and this stuff won’t be in stores for a while. I talked about Bottega Veneta and Dries Van Noten, but I never got around to my other  fav collections. I saved the best for last, unintentionally I guess.

First have to talk about Louis Vuitton’s socks and those shoes! The colours first caught my eye along with the baseball jackets, but the shoes and the sock combos were really nice to look at. I’m sure the price will be high as a Giraffe’s ass, but that’s Louis Vuitton. The dark grey and blue colours for Spring with the contrasting yellow and sand make for a swell collection and I give it an A.

Givenchy is groovy and all, but is Jesus Luz wearing a Keffiyeh inspired look? I don’t do Keffiyehs or anything associated with Palestine/ Hezbollah. Other than those eyebrow raising looks, the black and white looks are cool along with the gladiators and star prints.

I saved the best of the best for last, that is Mr. Dolce & Gabbana. It’s all about the jackets! I love love jackets like I love the Fall ’09 jackets, they are simply supreme. Even though the collection has really dark tones it’s still cool, not everything has to be Spring Green i guess. A thought just passed, will Noah Mills’ contract will ever end with them because he opened the show, plus he’s in the Fall campaign, so I guess we’ll see him in the SS ’10 campaigns as well. This collection gets A+++!

Thomas Maier can do no wrong in my eyes. I don’t ever think I’ve been disappointed with any of shows in the past six years. I find Maier’s ascetic is very clean cut and no fuss fashion. The collection is bold, but not too bold and there is hint of minimalism  that clashes with his creative selection of various floral and zig zagish patterns. All in all I think Maier presented a cool Spring looking collection and I love those baseball jackets!

It has been a long while since I’ve fallen in love with every look a designer has presented. The funny thing is I’ve fallen head over heels for Van Noten, a  brand I rarely lust over. I’ll look at his collections and go yeah it’s ok, but this time I was salivating all over my keyboard. I think he differeninates his collection from others this season by adding an allure of ethnic patters contrasting with plaids, and perfect fitting pants. The collection is like a modernized Cary Grant . There is a lot of blk/wht in other collections for SS 2010, but Van Noten’s collection has rich dark colours mixed with a few shades of “Spring” colours like the mustardish yellow cardigan and the orange plaid pants. I love dark coulours myself year around, but I like to throw on bright colours everyone once in a while and this collection embodies my style. I love Dries Van Noten SS ’10 to the fullest and it’s the best I’ve seen.

Next Bottega Veneta…